Constituency
2. Sompeta
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1967
AP-SOMPETA
SWA 52.3%won by 4.7%INC 47.7%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 4.8% to 4.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
54,490
Margin
2,558
4.69%
Candidates
2 contested · winner SWA- 1G. LATCHANNASwatantra Party · SWA28,52452.3%
- 2M.TULASIDASIndian National Congress · INC25,96647.7%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–INC swing
- −21.3%
- SWA share
- 43.6% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 17.6% → 47.7%
- Turnout
- — → —